Monday, January 26, 2009

Guardian's 1000 books

After bolding the ones I've read, I see I've read 231. I've italicized the ones (that I remember) I own but haven't yet read; I refuse to count those on the grounds they might bury me.

Comedy

Lucky Jim by Kingsley AmisMoney by Martin AmisThe Information by Martin AmisThe Bottle Factory Outing by Beryl BainbridgeAccording to Queeney by Beryl BainbridgeFlaubert's Parrot by Julian BarnesA History of the World in 10 1/2 Chapters by Julian BarnesAugustus Carp, Esq. by Himself: Being the Autobiography of a Really Good Man by Henry Howarth BashfordMolloy by Samuel BeckettZuleika Dobson by Max BeerbohmThe Adventures of Augie March by Saul BellowThe Uncommon Reader by Alan BennettQueen Lucia by EF BensonThe Ascent of Rum Doodle by WE BowmanA Good Man in Africa by William BoydThe History Man by Malcolm BradburyNo Bed for Bacon by Caryl Brahms and SJ SimonIllywhacker by Peter CareyA Season in Sinji by JL CarrThe Harpole Report by JL CarrThe Hearing Trumpet by Leonora CarringtonMister Johnson by Joyce CaryThe Horse's Mouth by Joyce CaryDon Quixote by Miguel de CervantesThe Case of the Gilded Fly by Edmund CrispinJust William by Richmal CromptonThe Provincial Lady by EM DelafieldSlouching Towards Kalamazoo by Peter De VriesThe Pickwick Papers by Charles DickensMartin Chuzzlewit by Charles DickensJacques the Fatalist and his Master by Denis DiderotA Fairy Tale of New York by JP DonleavyThe Commitments by Roddy DoyleEnnui by Maria EdgeworthCheese by Willem ElsschotBridget Jones's Diary by Helen FieldingJoseph Andrews by Henry FieldingTom Jones by Henry FieldingCaprice by Ronald FirbankBouvard et Pécuchet by Gustave FlaubertTowards the End of the Morning by Michael FraynThe Polygots by William GerhardieCold Comfort Farm by Stella GibbonsDead Souls by Nikolai GogolOblomov by Ivan GoncharovThe Wind in the Willows by Kenneth GrahameBrewster's Millions by Richard Greaves (George Barr McCutcheon)Squire Haggard's Journal by Michael GreenOur Man in Havana by Graham GreeneTravels with My Aunt by Graham GreeneDiary of a Nobody by George GrossmithThe Little World of Don Camillo by Giovanni GuareschiThe Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time by Mark HaddonCatch-22 by Joseph HellerMr Blandings Builds His Dream House by Eric HodgkinsHigh Fidelity by Nick HornbyI Served the King of England by Bohumil Hrabal (my husband read and loved this)The Lecturer's Tale by James HynesMr Norris Changes Trains by Christopher IsherwoodThe Mighty Walzer Howard by JacobsonPictures from an Institution by Randall JarrellThree Men in a Boat by Jerome K JeromeFinnegans Wake by James JoyceThe Castle by Franz KafkaLake Wobegon Days by Garrison KeillorDeath and the Penguin by Andrey KurkovThe Debt to Pleasure by John LanchesterL'Histoire de Gil Blas de Santillane (Gil Blas) Alain-René LesageChanging Places by David LodgeNice Work by David LodgeThe Towers of Trebizond by Rose MacaulayEngland, Their England by AG MacdonellWhisky Galore by Compton MackenzieMemoirs of a Gnostic Dwarf by David MadsenCakes and Ale - Or, the Skeleton in the Cupboard by W Somerset MaughamTales of the City by Armistead MaupinBright Lights, Big City by Jay McInerneyPuckoon by Spike MilliganThe Restraint of Beasts by Magnus MillsCharade by John MortimerTitmuss Regained by John MortimerUnder the Net by Iris MurdochPnin by Vladimir NabokovPale Fire by Vladimir NabokovFireflies by Shiva NaipaulThe Sacred Book of the Werewolf by Victor PelevinLa Disparition by Georges PerecLes Revenentes by Georges PerecLa Vie Mode d'Emploi by Georges PerecMy Search for Warren Harding by Robert PlunkettA Dance to the Music of Time by Anthony PowellA Time to be Born by Dawn PowellExcellent Women by Barbara PymLess Than Angels by Barbara PymZazie in the Metro by Raymond QueneauSolomon Gursky Was Here by Mordecai RichlerAlms for Oblivion by Simon RavenPortnoy's Complaint by Philip RothThe Westminster Alice by SakiThe Unbearable Bassington by SakiHurrah for St Trinian's by Ronald SearleGreat Apes by Will SelfPorterhouse Blue by Tom SharpeBlott on the Landscape by Tom SharpeOffice Politics by Wilfrid SheedBelles Lettres Papers: A Novel by Charles SimmonsMoo by Jane SmileyTopper Takes a Trip by Thorne SmithThe Adventures of Ferdinand Count Fathom by Tobias SmollettThe Adventures of Roderick Random by Tobias SmollettThe Adventures of Peregrine Pickle by Tobias SmollettThe Expedition of Humphry Clinker by Tobias SmollettThe Prime of Miss Jean Brodie by Muriel SparkThe Girls of Slender Means by Muriel SparkThe Driver's Seat by Muriel SparkLoitering with Intent by Muriel SparkA Far Cry from Kensington by Muriel SparkThe Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman by Laurence SterneWhite Man Falling by Mike StocksHandley Cross by RS SurteesA Tale of a Tub by Jonathan SwiftPenrod by Booth TarkingtonThe Luck of Barry Lyndon by William Makepeace ThackerayBefore Lunch by Angela ThirkellTropic of Ruislip by Leslie ThomasA Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy TooleBarchester Towers by Anthony TrollopeVenus on the Half-Shell by Kilgore TroutThe Mysterious Stranger by Mark TwainThe Witches of Eastwick by John UpdikeBreakfast of Champions by Kurt VonnegutInfinite Jest by David Foster WallaceDecline and Fall by Evelyn WaughVile Bodies by Evelyn WaughBlack Mischief by Evelyn WaughScoop by Evelyn WaughThe Loved One by Evelyn WaughA Handful of Dust by Evelyn WaughThe Life and Loves of a She-Devil by Fay WeldonTono Bungay by HG WellsMolesworth by Geoffrey Willans and Ronald SearleThe Wimbledon Poisoner by Nigel WilliamsAnglo-Saxon Attitudes by Angus WilsonSomething Fresh by PG WodehousePiccadilly Jim by PG WodehouseThank You Jeeves by PG WodehouseHeavy Weather by PG WodehouseThe Code of the Woosters by PG WodehouseJoy in the Morning by PG Wodehouse

Crime

The Man with the Golden Arm by Nelson AlgrenFantomas by Marcel Allain and Pierre SouvestreThe Mask of Dimitrios by Eric AmblerEpitaph for a Spy by Eric AmblerJourney into Fear by Eric AmblerThe New York Trilogy by Paul AusterTrent's Last Case by EC BentleyThe Poisoned Chocolates Case by Anthony BerkeleyThe Beast Must Die by Nicholas BlakeLady Audley's Secret by Mary E BraddonThe Neon Rain by James Lee BurkeThe Tin Roof Blowdown by James Lee BurkeThe Thirty-Nine Steps by John BuchanGreenmantle by John BuchanThe Asphalt Jungle by WR BurnettThe Postman Always Rings Twice by James M CainDouble Indemnity by James M CainTrue History of the Ned Kelly Gang by Peter CareyThe Hollow Man by John Dickson CarrThe Big Sleep by Raymond ChandlerThe Long Goodbye by Raymond ChandlerNo Orchids for Miss Blandish by James Hadley ChaseThe Riddle of the Sands by Erskine ChildersAnd Then There Were None by Agatha ChristieThe Mysterious Affair at Styles by Agatha ChristieThe Murder of Roger Ackroyd by Agatha ChristieThe Murder at the Vicarage by Agatha ChristieThe Secret Adversary by Agatha ChristieThe Woman in White by Wilkie CollinsThe Moonstone by Wilkie CollinsA Study in Scarlet by Arthur Conan DoyleThe Hound of the Baskervilles by Arthur Conan DoyleThe Sign of Four by Arthur Conan DoyleThe Manchurian Candidate by Richard CondonThe Secret Agent by Joseph ConradUnder Western Eyes by Joseph ConradPostmortem by Patricia CornwellThe Andromeda Strain by Michael CrichtonJurassic Park by Michael CrichtonPoetic Justice by Amanda CrossThe Ipcress File by Len DeightonLast Seen Wearing by Colin DexterThe Remorseful Day by Colin DexterRatking by Michael DibdinDead Lagoon by Michael DibdinDirty Tricks by Michael DibdinA Rich Full Death by Michael DibdinVendetta by Michael DibdinCrime and Punishment by Fyodor DostoevskyAn American Tragedy by Theodore DreiserMy Cousin Rachel by Daphne du MaurierThe Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre DumasThe Pledge by Friedrich DurrenmattThe Crime of Father Amado by José Maria de Eça de QueirozThe Name of the Rose by Umberto EcoAmerican Psycho by Bret Easton EllisLA Confidential by James EllroyThe Big Nowhere by James EllroyA Quiet Belief in Angels by RJ EllorySanctuary by William FaulknerCasino Royale by Ian FlemingGoldfinger by Ian FlemingYou Only Live Twice by Ian FlemingThe Day of the Jackal by Frederick ForsythBrighton Rock by Graham GreeneA Gun for Sale by Graham GreeneThe Ministry of Fear by Graham GreeneThe Third Man by Graham GreeneA Time to Kill by John GrishamThe King of Torts by John GrishamHangover Square by Patrick HamiltonThe Glass Key by Dashiell HammettThe Maltese Falcon by Dashiell HammettRed Harvest by Dashiell HammettThe Thin Man by Dashiell HammettFatherland by Robert HarrisBlack Sunday by Thomas HarrisRed Dragon by Thomas HarrisTourist Season by Carl HiaasenThe Friends of Eddie Coyle by George V HigginsStrangers on a Train by Patricia HighsmithThe Talented Mr Ripley by Patricia HighsmithBones and Silence by Reginald HillA Rage in Harlem by Chester HimesMiss Smilla's Feeling for Snow by Peter HoegRogue Male by Geoffrey HouseholdMalice Aforethought by Francis IlesSilence of the Grave by Arnadur IndridasonDeath at the President's Lodging by Michael InnesCover Her Face by PD JamesA Taste for Death by PD JamesFriday the Rabbi Slept Late by Harry KemelmanMisery by Stephen KingDolores Claiborne by Stephen KingKim by Rudyard KiplingThe Constant Gardener by John le CarreTinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy by John le CarreThe Spy Who Came in from the Cold by John le CarreTo Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee52 Pick-up by Elmore LeonardGet Shorty by Elmore LeonardMotherless Brooklyn by Jonathan LethemThe Bourne Identity by Robert LudlumCop Hater by Ed McBainNo Country for Old Men by Cormac McCarthyEnduring Love by Ian McEwanSidetracked by Henning MankellDevil in a Blue Dress by Walter MosleyThe Great Impersonation by E Phillips OppenheimThe Strange Borders of Palace Crescent by E Phillips OppenheimMy Name is Red by Orhan PamukToxic Shock by Sara ParetskyBlacklist by Sara ParetskyNineteen Seventy Seven by David PeaceThe Big Blowdown by George PelecanosHard Revolution by George PelecanosLush Life by Richard PriceThe Godfather by Mario Puzo (just the dirty parts)V by Thomas PynchonThe Crying of Lot 49 by Thomas PynchonBlack and Blue by Ian RankinThe Hanging Gardens by Ian RankinExit Music by Ian RankinJudgment in Stone by Ruth RendellLive Flesh by Ruth RendellDissolution by CJ SansomWhose Body? by Dorothy L SayersMurder Must Advertise by Dorothy Le SayersThe Madman of Bergerac by Georges SimenonThe Blue Room by Georges SimenonThe Laughing Policeman by Maj Sjowall and Per WahlooGorky Park by Martin Cruz SmithOf Mice and Men by John SteinbeckThe League of Frightened Men by Rex StoutPerfume by Patrick SuskindThe Secret History by Donna TarttThe Daughter of Time by Josephine TeyThe Getaway by Jim ThompsonPudd'nhead Wilson by Mark TwainA Dark-Adapted Eye by Barbara VineA Fatal inversion by Barbara VineKing Solomon's Carpet by Barbara VineThe Four Just Men by Edgar WallaceFingersmith by Sarah WatersNative Son by Richard WrightTherese Raquin by Emile Zola

Family and Self

The Face of Another by Kobo AbeLittle Women by Louisa May AlcottBehind the Scenes at the Museum by Kate AtkinsonCat's Eye by Margaret AtwoodEpileptic by David BRoom Temperature by Nicholson BakerEugenie Grandet by Honore de BalzacLe Pere Goriot by Honore de BalzacThe Crow Road by Iain BanksThe L Shaped Room by Lynne Reid BanksFun Home by Alison BechdelMalone Dies by Samuel BeckettA Legacy by Sybille BedfordHerzog by Saul BellowHumboldt's Gift by Saul BellowThe Old Wives' Tale by Arnold BennettG by John BergerExtinction by Thomas BernhardTwo Serious Ladies by Jane BowlesAny Human Heart by William BoydThe Death of Virgil by Hermann BrochEvelina by Fanny BurneyThe Way of All Flesh by Samuel ButlerThe Sound of my Voice by Ron ButlinThe Outsider by Albert CamusWise Children by Angela CarterThe Professor's House by Willa CatherThe Wapshot Chronicle by John CheeverThe Awakening by Kate ChopinLes Enfants Terrible by Jean CocteauThe Vagabond by Sidonie-Gabrielle ColetteManservant and Maidservant by Ivy Compton-BurnettBeing Dead by Jim CraceQuarantine by Jim CraceThe Mandarins by Simone de BeauvoirRoxana by Daniel DefoeGreat Expectations by Charles DickensThe Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor DostoevskyMy New York Diary by Julie DoucetThe Millstone by Margaret DrabbleMy Family and Other Animals by Gerald DurrellSilence by Shusaku EndoThe Gathering by Anne EnrightMiddlesex by Jeffrey EugenidesAs I Lay Dying by William FaulknerThe Sound and the Fury by William FaulknerThe Sportswriter by Richard FordHowards End by EM ForsterSpies by Michael FraynHideous Kinky by Esther FreudThe Man of Property by John GalsworthyMary Barton by Elizabeth GaskellThe Immoralist by Andre GideThe Vatican Cellars by Andre GideThe Vicar of Wakefield by Oliver GoldsmithThe Power and the Glory by Graham GreeneHunger by Knut HamsunThe Shrimp and the Anemone by LP HartleyThe Old Man and the Sea by Ernest HemingwaySteppenwolf by Herman HesseNarziss and Goldmund by Hermann HesseThe Three Paradoxes by Paul HornschemeierTom Brown's Schooldays by Thomas HughesA Prayer for Owen Meany by John IrvingThe Ambassadors by Henry JamesWashington Square by Henry JamesThe Tortoise and the Hare by Elizabeth JenkinsThe Unfortunates by BS JohnsonA Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James JoyceUlysses by James JoyceGood Behaviour by Molly KeaneMemet my Hawk by Yasar KemalOne Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken KeseyThe Buddha of Suburbia by Hanif KureishiSons and Lovers by DH LawrenceCider with Rosie by Laurie LeeInvitation to the Waltz by Rosamond LehmannThe Golden Notebook by Doris LessingHow Green was My Valley by Richard LlewellynMartin Eden by Jack LondonUnder the Volcano by Malcolm LowryThe Member of the Wedding by Carson McCullersPalace Walk by Naguib MahfouzThe Assistant by Bernard MalamudBuddenbrooks by Thomas MannThe Chateau by William MaxwellThe Rector's Daughter by FM MayorThe Ordeal of Richard Feverek by George MeredithFamily Matters by Rohinton MistrySour Sweet by Timothy MoThe Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne by Brian MooreThe Bluest Eye by Toni MorrisonSong of Solomon by Toni MorrisonWho Do You Think You Are? by Alice MunroThe Black Prince by Iris MurdochThe Man Without Qualities by Robert MusilA House for Mr Biswas by VS NaipaulAt-Swim-Two-Birds by Flann O'BrienTeach Us to Outgrow Our Madness by Kezaburo OeThe Moviegoer by Walker PercyThe Bell Jar by Sylvia PlathMy Name Is Asher Lev by Chaim PotokThe Good Companions by JB PriestleyThe Shipping News by E Annie ProulxRemembrance of Things Past by Marcel Proust (just the first two)A Married Man by Piers Paul ReadPointed Roofs by Dorothy RichardsonThe Fortunes of Richard Mahoney by Henry Handel RichardsonCall it Sleep by Henry RothJulie, ou la Nouvelle Heloise by Jean-Jacques RousseauThe God of Small Things by Arundhati RoyThe Catcher in the Rye by JD SalingerAlberta and Jacob by Cora SandelA Suitable Boy by Vikram SethUnless by Carol ShieldsWe Need to Talk About Kevin by Lionel ShriverThe Three Sisters by May SinclairThe Family Moskat or The Manor or The Estate by Isaac Bashevis SingerA Thousand Acres by Jane SmileyOn Beauty by Zadie SmithThe Man Who Loved Children by Christina SteadEast of Eden by John SteinbeckBallet Shoes by Noel StreatfieldConfessions of Zeno by Italo SvevoThe Magnificent Ambersons by Booth TarkingtonAngel by Elizabeth TaylorLark Rise to Candleford by Flora ThompsonThe Blackwater Lightship by Colm ToibinThe Secret Diary of Adrian Mole, Aged 13 3/4 by Sue TownsendDeath in Summer by William TrevorFathers and Sons by Ivan TurgenevPeace in War by Miguel de UnamunoThe Rabbit Omnibus by John Updike (2 out of 4)The Color Purple by Alice WalkerJimmy Corrigan, The Smarest Kid on Earth by Chris WareMorvern Callar by Alan WarnerThe History of Mr Polly by HG WellsThe Fountain Overflows by Rebecca WestFrost in May by Antonia WhiteThe Tree of Man by Patrick WhiteThe Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar WildeOranges Are Not the Only Fruit by Jeanette WintersonI'll Go to Bed at Noon by Gerard WoodwardTo the Lighthouse by Virginia WoolfMrs Dalloway by Virginia WoolfSwiss Family Robinson by Johann David Wyss

Love

Le Grand Meaulnes by Henri Alain-FournierDom Casmurro Joaquim by Maria Machado de AssisNorthanger Abbey by Jane AustenSense and Sensibility by Jane AustenPride and Prejudice by Jane AustenMansfield Park by Jane AustenEmma by Jane AustenPersuasion by Jane AustenGiovanni's Room by James BaldwinNightwood by Djuna BarnesThe Garden of the Finzi-Cortinis by Giorgio BassaniLove for Lydia by HE BatesMore Die of Heartbreak by Saul BellowLorna Doone by RD BlackmoreThe Death of the Heart by Elizabeth BowenThe Heat of the Day by Elizabeth BowenJane Eyre by Charlotte BronteVilette by Charlotte BronteWuthering Heights by Emily BronteLook At Me by Anita BrooknerRubyfruit Jungle by Rita Mae BrownPossession by AS ByattBreakfast at Tiffany's by Truman CapoteOscar and Lucinda by Peter CareyA Month in the Country by JL CarrMy Antonia by Willa CatherA Lost Lady by Willa CatherClaudine a l'ecole by Sidonie-Gabrielle ColetteCheri by Sidonie-Gabrielle ColletteVictory: An Island Tale by Joseph ConradThe Princess of Cleves by Madame de LafayetteThe Parasites by Daphne du MaurierRebecca by Daphne du MaurierThe Lover by Marguerite DurasAdam Bede by George EliotDaniel Deronda by George EliotThe Mill on the Floss by George EliotThe Virgin Suicides by Jeffrey EugenidesThe Great Gatsby by F Scott FitzgeraldTender is the Night by F Scott FitzgeraldThe Blue Flower by Penelope FitzgeraldMadame Bovary by Gustave FlaubertThe Good Soldier by Ford Madox FordA Room with a View by EM ForsterThe French Lieutenant's Woman by John FowlesThe Snow Goose by Paul GallicoRuth by Elizabeth GaskellStrait is the Gate by Andre GideSunset Song by Lewis Grassic GibbonThe Sorrows of Young Werther by Johann Wolfgang GoetheLiving by Henry GreenThe End of the Affair by Graham GreeneThe Well of Loneliness by Radclyffe HallFar From the Madding Crowd by Thomas HardyJude the Obscure by Thomas HardyTess of the D'Urbervilles by Thomas HardyThe Woodlanders by Thomas HardyThe Go-Between by LP HartleyThe Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel HawthorneThe Transit of Venus by Shirley HazzardA Farewell to Arms by Ernest HemingwayThe Infamous Army by Georgette HeyerRegency Buck by Georgette HeyerThe Swimming-Pool Library by Alan HollinghurstGreen Mansions: A Romance of the Tropical Forest by WH HudsonTheir Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale HurstonCrome Yellow by Aldous HuxleyThe Remains of the Day by Kazuo IshiguroPortrait of a Lady by Henry JamesThe Wings of the Dove by Henry JamesThe Piano Teacher by Elfriede JelinekBeauty and Saddness by Yasunari KawabataThe Far Pavillions by Mary Margaret KayeZorba the Greek by Nikos KazantzakisMoon over Africa by Pamela KentThe Book of Laughter and Forgetting by Milan KunderaThe Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan KunderaLes Liaisons Dangereuses by Pierre-Ambroise-Francois Choderlos de LaclosLady Chatterley's Lover by DH LawrenceThe Rainbow by DH LawrenceWomen in Love by DH LawrenceThe Echoing Grove by Rosamond LehmannThe Weather in the Streets by Rosamond LehmannGentlemen Prefer Blondes by Anita LoosZami by Audre LordeForeign Affairs by Alison LurieSamarkand by Amin MaaloufDeath in Venice by Thomas MannThe Silent Duchess by Dacia MarainiA Heart So White by Javier MariasLove in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia MarquezOf Human Bondage by Somerset MaughamSo Long, See you Tomorrow by William MaxwellThe Heart is a Lonely Hunter by Carson McCullersAtonement by Ian McEwanThe Child in Time by Ian McEwanThe Egoist by George MeredithTropic of Cancer by Henry MillerPatience and Sarah by Isabel MillerGone With the Wind by Margaret MitchellThe Pursuit of Love by Nancy MitfordLove in a Cold Climate by Nancy MitfordArturo's Island by Elsa MoranteNorwegian Wood by Haruki MurakamiLolita, or the Confessions of a White Widowed Male by Vladimir NabokovThe Painter of Signs by RK NarayanDelta of Venus by Anais NinAll Souls Day by Cees NooteboomThe English Patient by Michael OndaatjeDoctor Zhivago by Boris PasternakManon Lescaut by Abbe PrevostWide Sargasso Sea by Jean RhysMaurice Guest by Henry Handel RichardsonPamela by Samuel RichardsonClarissa by Samuel RichardsonGilead by Marilynne RobinsonBonjour Tristesse by Francoise SaganAli and Nino by Kurban SaidLight Years by James SalterA Sport and a Passtime by James SalterThe Reader by Benhardq SchlinkThe Reluctant Orphan by Aara SealeLove Story by Eric SegalEnemies, a Love Story by Isaac Bashevis SingerAt Grand Central Station I Sat Down and Wept by Elizabeth SmartI Capture the Castle by Dodie SmithThe Map of Love by Ahdaf SoueifValley of the Dolls by Jacqueline Susann (bits, pieces)Waterland by Graham SwiftDiary of a Mad Old Man by Junichiro TanizakiAnna Karenina by Leo TolstoyMusic and Silence by Rose TremainFirst Love by Ivan TurgenevBreathing Lessons by Anne TylerThe Accidental Tourist by Anne TylerThe Night Watch by Sarah WatersThe Graduate by Charles WebbThe Age of Innocence by Edith WhartonThe Passion by Jeanette WintersonEast Lynne by Ellen WoodRevolutionary Road by Richard Yates

Science Fiction and Fantasy

The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas AdamsNon-Stop by Brian W AldissFoundation by Isaac AsimovThe Blind Assassin by Margaret AtwoodThe Handmaid's Tale by Margaret AtwoodIn the Country of Last Things by Paul AusterThe Drowned World by JG BallardCrash by JG BallardMillennium People by JG BallardThe Wasp Factory by Iain BanksConsider Phlebas by Iain M BanksWeaveworld by Clive BarkerDarkmans by Nicola BarkerThe Time Ships by Stephen BaxterDarwin's Radio by Greg BearVathek by William BeckfordThe Stars My Destination by Alfred BesterFahrenheit 451 by Ray BradburyLost Souls by Poppy Z BriteWieland by Charles Brockden BrownRogue Moon by Algis BudrysThe Master and Margarita by Mikhail BulgakovThe Coming Race by EGEL Bulwer-LyttonA Clockwork Orange by Anthony BurgessThe End of the World News by Anthony BurgessA Princess of Mars by Edgar Rice BurroughsNaked Lunch by William BurroughsKindred by Octavia ButlerErewhon by Samuel ButlerThe Baron in the Trees by Italo CalvinoThe Influence by Ramsey CampbellAlice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis CarrollThrough the Looking Glass and What Alice Found There by Lewis CarrollNights at the Circus by Angela CarterThe Passion of New Eve by Angela CarterThe Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay by Michael ChabonThe Man who was Thursday by GK ChestertonChildhood's End by Arthur C ClarkeJonathan Strange & Mr Norrell by Susanna ClarkeHello Summer, Goodbye by Michael G ConeyGirlfriend in a Coma by Douglas CouplandHouse of Leaves by Mark DanielewskiPig Tales by Marie DarrieussecqThe Einstein Intersection by Samuel R DelaneyDo Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K DickThe Man in the High Castle by Philip K DickCamp Concentration by Thomas M DischFoucault's Pendulum by Umberto EcoUnder the Skin by Michel FaberThe Magus by John FowlesAmerican Gods by Neil GaimanRed Shift by Alan GarnerNeuromancer by William GibsonHerland by Charlotte Perkins GilmanLord of the Flies by William GoldingThe Forever War by Joe HaldemanLight by M John HarrisonThe House of the Seven Gables by Nathaniel HawthorneStranger in a Strange Land by Robert A HeinleinDune by Frank L HerbertThe Glass Bead Game by Herman HesseRiddley Walker by Russell HobanThe Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner by James HoggAtomised by Michel HouellebecqBrave New World by Aldous HuxleyThe Unconsoled by Kazuo IshiguroThe Haunting of Hill House by Shirley JacksonThe Turn of the Screw by Henry JamesThe Children of Men by PD JamesAfter London; or, Wild England by Richard JefferiesBold as Love by Gwyneth JonesThe Trial by Franz KafkaFlowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes (just the short story version)The Shining by Stephen KingThe Victorian Chaise-longue by Marghanita LaskiUncle Silas by Joseph Sheridan Le FanuThe Earthsea Series by Ursula Le GuinThe Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula Le GuinSolaris by Stanislaw LemMemoirs of a Survivor by Doris LessingThe Chronicles of Narnia by CS Lewis (two out of seven)The Monk by Matthew LewisA Voyage to Arcturus by David LindsayThe Night Sessions by Ken MacleodBeyond Black by Hilary MantelOnly Forward by Michael Marshall SmithI Am Legend by Richard MathesonMelmoth the Wanderer by Charles MaturinThe Butcher Boy by Patrick McCabeThe Road by Cormac McCarthyAscent by Jed MercurioThe Scar by China MievilleIngenious Pain by Andrew MillerA Canticle for Leibowitz by Walter M Miller JrCloud Atlas by David MitchellMother London by Michael MoorcockNews from Nowhere by William MorrisBeloved by Toni MorrisonThe Wind-Up Bird Chronicle by Haruki MurakamiAda or Ardor by Vladimir NabokovThe Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey NiffeneggerRingworld by Larry NivenVurt by Jeff NoonThe Third Policeman by Flann O'BrienThe Famished Road by Ben OkriNineteen Eighty-Four by George OrwellFight Club by Chuck PalahniukNightmare Abbey by Thomas Love PeacockTitus Groan by Mervyn PeakeThe Space Merchants by Frederik Pohl and CM KornbluthA Glastonbury Romance by John Cowper PowysThe Discworld Series by Terry PratchettThe Prestige by Christopher PriestHis Dark Materials by Philip PullmanGargantua and Pantagruel by Francois RabelaisThe Mysteries of Udolpho by Ann RadcliffeRevelation Space by Alastair ReynoldsThe Years of Rice and Salt by Kim Stanley RobinsonHarry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone by JK RowlingSatanic Verses by Salman RushdieThe Female Man by Joanna RussAir by Geoff RymanThe Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-ExuperyBlindness by Jose SaramagoHow the Dead Live by Will SelfFrankenstein by Mary ShelleyHyperion by Dan SimmonsStar Maker by Olaf StapledonSnow Crash by Neal StephensonThe Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde by Robert Louis StevensonDracula by Bram StokerThe Insult by Rupert ThomsonThe Hobbit by JRR TolkienThe Lord of the Rings by JRR TolkienA Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court by Mark TwainSirens of Titan by Kurt VonnegutThe Castle of Otranto by Horace WalpoleInstitute Benjamenta by Robert WalserLolly Willowes by Sylvia Townsend WarnerAffinity by Sarah WatersThe Time Machine by HG WellsThe War of the Worlds by HG WellsThe Sword in the Stone by TH WhiteThe Old Men at the Zoo by Angus WilsonThe Book of the New Sun by Gene WolfeOrlando by Virginia WoolfDay of the Triffids by John WyndhamThe Midwich Cuckoos by John WyndhamWe by Yevgeny Zamyatin

State of the Nation

Things Fall Apart by Chinua AchebeAnthills of the Savannah by Chinua AchebeLondon Fields by Martin AmisUntouchable by Mulk Raj AnandGo Tell it on the Mountain by James BaldwinLa Comedie Humaine by Honore de BalzacThey Were Counted by Miklos BanffyA Kind of Loving by Stan BarstowUncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher StoweOroonoko, or The Royal Slave by Aphra BehnClayhanger by Arnold BennettThe Last September by Elizabeth BowenRoom at the Top by John BraineA Dry White Season by Andre BrinkShirley by Charlotte BronteEarthly Powers by Anthony BurgessThe Virgin in the Garden by AS ByattTobacco Road by Erskine CaldwellThe Plague by Albert CamusThe Kingdom of this World by Alejo CarpentierWhat a Carve Up! by Jonathan CoeDisgrace by JM CoetzeeWaiting for the Barbarians by JM CoezteeMicroserfs by Douglas CouplandMoll Flanders by Daniel DefoeUnderworld by Don DeLillo (liked the first chapter, couldn't bear the rest)White Noise by Don DeLilloA Tale of Two Cities by Charles DickensBleak House by Charles Dickens Dombey and Son by Charles DickensHard Times by Charles DickensLittle Dorritt by Charles DickensOliver Twist by Charles DickensPlay It As It Lays by Joan DidionSybil or The Two Nations by Benjamin DisraeliBerlin Alexanderplatz by Alfred DöblinThe Book of Daniel by EL DoctorowNotes from the Underground by Fyodor DostoevskyThe Idiot by Fyodor DostoevskyUSA by John Dos PassosSister Carrie by Theodor DreiserCastle Rackrent by Maria EdgeworthMiddlemarch by George EliotSilas Marner by George EliotThe Invisible Man by Ralph EllisonSentimental Education by Gustave FlaubertEffi Briest by Theodore FontaneIndependence Day by Richard FordA Passage to India by EM ForsterThe Corrections by Jonathan FranzenThe Recognitions by William Gaddis (in progress)Cranford by Elizabeth GaskellNorth and South by Elizabeth GaskellThe Counterfeiters by Andre GideThe Odd Women by George GissingNew Grub Street by George GissingJuly's People by Nadine GordimerMother by Maxim GorkyLanark by Alastair GrayLove on the Dole by Walter GreenwoodThe Mayor of Casterbridge by Thomas HardyA Kestrel for a Knave by Barry HinesThe Line of Beauty by Alan HollinghurstSouth Riding by Winifred HoltbyLes Miserables by Victor Hugo (will finish one of these years)Goodbye to Berlin by Christopher IsherwoodChronicle in Stone by Ismael KadareHow Late it Was, How Late by James KelmanThe Leopard by Giuseppi di LampedusaA Girl in Winter by Philip LarkinPassing by Nella LarsenThe Grass is Singing by Doris LessingBabbitt by Sinclair LewisElmer Gantry by Sinclair LewisMain Street by Sinclair LewisAbsolute Beginners by Colin MacInnesThe Group by Mary McCarthyAmongst Women by John McGahernThe Posthumous Memoirs of Bras Cubas by Joaquim Maria Machado de AssisOf Love & Hunger by Julian Maclaren-RossRemembering Babylon by David MaloufThe Magic Mountain by Thomas MannThe Betrothed by Alessandro ManzoniBel-Ami by Guy de MaupassantA Fine Balance by Rohinton MistryThe Time of Indifference by Alberto MoraviaA Bend in the River by VS NaipaulMcTeague by Frank NorrisPersonality by Andrew O'HaganAnimal Farm by George OrwellThe Ragazzi Pier by Paolo PasoliniCry, the Beloved Country by Alan PatonThe Moon and the Bonfire by Cesare PaveseGB84 by David PeaceHeadlong Hall by Thomas Love PeacockAfternoon Men by Anthony PowellVineland by Thomas PynchonThe Radetzky March by Joseph RothAmerican Pastoral by Philip RothThe Human Stain by Philip RothMidnight's Children by Salman RushdieShame by Salman RushdieTo Each his Own by Leonardo SciasciaStaying On by Paul ScottLast Exit to Brooklyn by Hubert Selby JrThe Lonely Londoners by Samuel SelvonGod's Bit of Wood by Ousmane SembeneThe Case of Comrade Tulayev by Victor SergeRichshaw Boy by Lao SheSaturday Night and Sunday Morning by Alan SillitoeThe Jungle by Upton SinclairNovel on Yellow Paper by Stevie SmithWhite Teeth by Zadie SmithOne Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovtich by Alexandr SolzhenitsynThe Grapes of Wrath by John SteinbeckThe Red and the Black by StendhalThis Sporting Life by David StoreyThe Red Room by August StringbergThe Home and the World by Rabindranath TagoreVanity Fair by William Makepeace ThackerayThe Ragged Trousered Philanthropists by Robert TressellThe Last Chronicle of Barset by Anthony TrollopeThe Way We Live Now by Anthony TrollopeThe Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark TwainCouples by John UpdikeZ by Vassilis VassilikosBilly Liar by Keith WaterhouseTrainspotting by Irvine WelshThe Day of the Locust by Nathanael WestThe Return of the Soldier by Rebecca WestThe House of Mirth by Edith WhartonThe Bonfire of the Vanities by Tom Wolfe (abandoned halfway through)Germinal by Emile ZolaLa Bete Humaine by Emile Zola

War and Travel

Silver Stallion by Junghyo AhnDeath of a Hero by Richard AldingtonMaster Georgie by Beryl BainbridgeDarkness Falls from the Air by Nigel BalchinEmpire of the Sun by JG BallardRegeneration by Pat BarkerA Long Long Way by Sebastian BarryFair Stood the Wind for France by HE BatesCarrie's War by Nina BawdenThe Savage Detectives by Roberto BolanoThe Sheltering Sky by Paul BowlesAn Ice-Cream War by William BoydWhen the Wind Blows by Raymond BriggsInvisible Cities by Italo CalvinoAuto-da-Fe by Elias CanettiOne of Ours by Willa CatherJourney to the End of the Night by Louis-Ferdinand CelineMonkey by Wu Ch'eng-enHeart of Darkness by Joseph ConradLord Jim by Joseph ConradNostromo by Joseph ConradSharpe's Eagle by Bernard CornwellThe History of Pompey the Little by Francis CoventryThe Red Badge of Courage by Stephen CraneRobinson Crusoe by Daniel DefoeBomber by Len DeightonDeliverance by James DickeyThree Soldiers by John Dos PassosSouth Wind by Norman DouglasThe Three Musketeers by Alexandre DumasJustine by Lawrence DurrellThe Bamboo Bed by William EastlakeThe Siege of Krishnapur by JG FarrellBirdsong by Sebastian FaulksParade's End by Ford Madox FordThe African Queen by CS ForesterThe Ship by CS ForesterFlashman by George MacDonald FraserCold Mountain by Charles FrazierThe Beach by Alex GarlandTo The Ends of the Earth trilogy by William GoldingAsterix the Gaul by Rene GoscinnyThe Tin Drum by Gunter GrassCount Belisarius by Robert GravesLife and Fate by Vassily GrossmanDe Niro's Game by Rawi HageKing Solomon's Mines by H Rider HaggardShe: A History of Adventure by H Rider HaggardThe Slaves of Solitude by Patrick HamiltonCovenant with Death by John HarrisEnigma by Robert HarrisThe Good Soldier Svejk by Jaroslav HasekFor Whom the Bell Tolls by Ernest HemingwayThe Prisoner of Zenda by Anthony HopeThe Kite Runner by Khaled HosseiniA High Wind in Jamaica by Richard HughesRasselas by Samuel JohnsonFrom Here to Eternity by James JonesAndersonville by MacKinlay KantorConfederates by Thomas KeneallySchindler's Ark by Thomas KeneallyDay by AL KennedyOn the Road by Jack KerouacDarkness at Noon by Arthur KoestlerThe Painted Bird by Jerzy KosinskiIf Not Now, When? by Primo LeviThe Call of the Wild by Jack LondonThe Guns of Navarone by Alistair MacLeanAll the Pretty Horses by Cormac McCarthyBlood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy (read 100 pages; stopped)The Mark of Zorro by Johnston McCulleyLonesome Dove by Larry McMurtyThe Naked and the Dead by Norman MailerLa Condition Humaine by Andre MalrauxFortunes of War by Olivia ManningOne Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia MarquezThe Children of the New Forest by Frederick MarryatMoby-Dick or, The Whale by Herman MelvilleTales of the South Pacific by James MichenerThe Cruel Sea by Nicholas MonsarratHistory by Elsa MoranteSuite Francaise by Irene NemirovskyThe Sorrow of War by Bao NinhMaster and Commander by Patrick O'BrianThe Things They Carried by Tim O'BrienThe Scarlet Pimpernel by Baroness Emmuska OrczyBurmese Days by George OrwellZen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance by Robert Pirsig (bought it, but couldn't read it)The Valley of Bones by Anthony PowellThe Soldier's Art by Anthony PowellThe Military Philosophers by Anthony PowellGravity's Rainbow by Thomas PynchonThe Surprising Adventures of Baron Munchausen by Rudolp Erich RaspeAll Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria RemarqueThe Crab with the Golden Claws by Georges Remi HergeTintin in Tibet by Georges Remi HergeThe Castafiore Emerald by Georges Remi HergeThe Devil to Pay in the Backlands by Joao Guimaraes RosaSacaramouche by Rafael SabatiniCaptain Blood by Rafael SabatiniEverything is Illuminated by Jonathon Safran FoerThe Hunters by James SalterIvanhoe by Sir Walter ScottThe Rings of Saturn by WG SebaldAusterlitz by WG SebaldBlack Beauty by Anna SewellThe Young Lions by Irwin ShawA Town Like Alice by Nevil ShuteMaus by Art SpiegelmanThe Charterhouse of Parma by StendhalCryptonomicon by Neil StephensonA Sentimental Journey by Lawrence SterneKidnapped by Robert Louis StevensonTreasure Island by Robert Louis StevensonA Flag for Sunrise by Robert StoneSophie's Choice by William StyronGulliver's Travels by Jonathan SwiftWar and Peace by Leo TolstoyThe Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark TwainAround the World in Eighty Days by Jules VerneA Journey to the Centre of the Earth by Jules VerneWilliwaw by Gore VidalCandide by VoltaireSlaughter-House Five by Kurt VonnegutPut Out More Flags by Evelyn WaughMen at Arms by Evelyn WaughThe Island of Dr Moreau by HG WellsThe Machine-Gunners by Robert WestallVoss by Patrick WhiteThe Virginian by Owen WisterThe Caine Mutiny by Herman WoukThe Debacle by Emile Zola

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I wish I could take credit for having had the patience to make the list, but the Guardian kindly had a link to the complete list yesterday online, so I cut and pasted! :) I think I've only managed about 100 of the titles--I'm too afraid to count--I should italicise those that I own--I bet the number is far greater than those I've read....but that's always the case. I have good intentions anyway.

Thank you for finding the link to the entire list then--I overlooked it completely. :)

One thing I found interesting is that I've read practically the same number of books on both this list and the original 1001 list. Granted, there are a lot of books in common on the lists, but I thought there'd be enough individual quirkiness in the lists that I'd come out firmly ahead on one rather than the other.

I probably shouldn't brag but I have read 60 books from this list. It took me 15 to read through the list and several of them I had to remind myself that I hadn't actually read it but I had watched the movie version. Clearly I have a lot of good reading ahead of me still.